Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell Professor of Human Sexuality Andrea Parrot will talk about "the issue of sexual communication how people talk about what they want," said Ellen Porter-Honnet, assistant dean for co-education and chairman of the Peer Harrassment Working Group. The group, established in the fall of 1985 to educate students about date rape, is partially funding Parrot's visit...
...growing number of educators, parents and law-enforcement people are coming to believe that if only more children were led to give such answers, the war might someday be won. Education in the perils of narcotics and in the techniques of resisting peer pressure to "come on, try it" is one approach that offers some real hope of reducing drug...
...week affair. It must go beyond drugs to teach children how to develop the self-esteem that those tempted by narcotics usually lack and how to deal with strains and tensions without turning to drugs. It must not only tell children to say no but train them to resist peer pressure. And it must be realistic: Booze, for example, candidly tells children that drugs produce a giddy high similar to riding a swing, but he goes on to detail what follows that high...
...role of Bill Snibson, the Cockney peer, was originally a star turn for Lupino Lane, a comic mime of the '30s. Lindsay, seen in the U.S. as Edmund in Laurence Olivier's TV King Lear, proves an inspired successor. He has mastered the stereotypical Cockney's accusatory inflections, rough humor, feral grace and odd parlor tricks, from a no-hands bobbing of his hat on his head to incessant, playful swiping of a bystander's gold watch. He brings vitality to such shopworn comedy as passing out, being revived and protesting, "Here! I didn't faint for water...
...There's not a single study that establishes cigarette advertising as the main factor" or a contributing factor in a person's decision to become a smoker, Stapf said. Rather, "peer pressure and the role of parents and elders generally" are the main factors, he said...